Windrose is an entirely PvE focused co-op survival game, so it makes perfect sense that players are eager to party up and run their own Windrose dedicated servers. Overall launch has been pretty smooth for the early access game—on day two on Steam it reached a peak of nearly 100,000 concurrent players, and reviews remain very positive—but online connectivity has been bumpy.
Bumpy enough, even, for developer Kraken Express to put out a call in Windrose’s Discord server: Any ISP pros in the house?
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I checked the dedicated server code myself, and found the specific URL— does indeed route to an IP address in Moscow, as confirmed on IPlocation.net.
“We’ve received multiple reports that some of our server addresses and backend services used for co-op may be restricted or blocklisted by certain ISPs across Europe and North America. To be completely transparent, we’re still trying to figure out what exactly is going wrong here. We don’t yet have a clear answer, but we’re doing everything we can to get to the bottom of it. Something is clearly interfering along the way, and if you can help us shed some light on this, we would sincerely appreciate it.”
Kraken Express is based in Uzbekistan, not Russia, and the server software also contains similar URLs pointing to IP addresses located in Europe and South Korea. So maybe it’s all no big deal—but until the developers explain why players in other countries are pinging Russia every time they start up a server, some are bound to stay suspicious.
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